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I've just finished Ms. Ray's Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, and for someone born among the pines and cypress along the northern edge of the Everglades, I found the visceral honesty and courage in the sensibility at the heart of her work akin to being full grown and having your mama slap you for using a curse word she's already warned you about. An amazing work, full of poetry and soul, and a ruthless clarity that yanks you up by your lapels face-to-face with the barren arrogance of destroying such an ageless, spirtual, and intricate landscape as she grew up in. The chapter entitled Clearcut is the most powerful piece of a marvelous whole as I have read since the Grand Inquisitor; at once a prayer, a lament, and a prophetic warning.
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Ecology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse Ray
jwatkins53, June 5, 2006
I've just finished Ms. Ray's Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, and for someone born among the pines and cypress along the northern edge of the Everglades, I found the visceral honesty and courage in the sensibility at the heart of her work akin to being full grown and having your mama slap you for using a curse word she's already warned you about. An amazing work, full of poetry and soul, and a ruthless clarity that yanks you up by your lapels face-to-face with the barren arrogance of destroying such an ageless, spirtual, and intricate landscape as she grew up in. The chapter entitled Clearcut is the most powerful piece of a marvelous whole as I have read since the Grand Inquisitor; at once a prayer, a lament, and a prophetic warning.(4 of 8 readers found this comment helpful)